Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-03-05
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

The roller skating rink craze has Just
reached Mexico.
Preparations for The Queens Jubilee are
proceeding rapidly in u parts of India.
Massachusetts pays her Governor 81,
year and bill is pending to increase it.
Recently man at Edwardsport, Ind,
laughed so immoderately at a pun that he
fell dead.
The Forti6cation Appropriation bill will
fail. An agreement cannot now be reached
! before. adjournment.
T Ten youtas are TO be sent from Costa Rica
to the United States, to be educated at the
expense of the Government.
The Montreal carnival cost Srso, 900, and
issestin,ated to have brought $4,000, 900 in
American money to the city.
At Polk City, Iowa, a r3.year-old boy fell
$50 feet down mining shaft into the sump,
escaping with only laceration OF one leg.
Germany is annoyed by Russia's announc-
ed intention to increase her import dues, and
and is considering sharp counter measures.
The Baptists of Spaulding recently beg
ged the trunk of an eak felled by MIR. Glad
stone and sold it in small bits at church
bazaar.
Queen Victoria proposes to establish a
new decoration during her jubilee year for
the special benefit of literature, art and
journalism.
coal famine threatens Halifax, unless
the strike Of the Pictou miners soon ends
The cotton factory closed down Saturday for
want of fuel.
The Director of the Mint reports the pro-
duction of gold in the United States for 1886
at $35, 600, and the yield Of silver at
SAG, Sos,93o.
Salisbury is said to be preparing eoncilia-
tory dispatch to Bayard concerning the Can
adian fisheries disputes, and it viii be for
warded this week.
New Jersey hermit, who died few days
ago, left an old gun, the barrel of which
was found to be filled to the muzzle with
gold dollar pieces.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature prohibiting the sale Of pis.
tolls or any kind Of firearms to boys under
eighteen years of age.
The King Of Spain is to give ball at the
Royal Palace in Madrid. In honor of the
occasion he will put on his first short frock.
He can walk little now.
Washington dispatches state that there is
no chance for the confirmation of ]. Marion
Brooks for District Attorney in the Southern
California District this session.
James Munroe Trotter, nominated to be
Recorder of Deeds, for the District of Col.
umbia, is colored citizen of the State Of
Massachusetts,, forty.eight years of age.
The labor question is still agitating the
farmers and planters of the whole country of
Central Mississippi, and those who are losing
their hands are making it hot for the labor
agents.
| Some Of the English papers are rejoicing
at the failure to regulate the Court reports
Of divorce cases. The Judges find that they
have no power to keep testimony from the
public.
The provision in the Legislative Approp-
ration bill to consolidate the Offices of the
Surveyor Generals of California and Nevada
and abolish them in 1883, was stricken out
in the House Wednesday.
The rate of steerage passage from New
York to Europe has been increased on all
the principal steamship lines on an average
of IS. The average rate as SIS, and this
week was increased to $40.
General Quinby, City Surveyor Of Roch-
ester, N. Y, has sued the Erie Railroad
Company for ST. 700 damages in not getting
him to New York in time to witness the un.
yelling Of the Bartholdi statue.
The Montreal police have succeeded in
unearthing and arresting part of a danger.
Gus gang of counterfriters. 1t is claimed
they put in circulation during the carnival
about $500, 900 in counterfeit notes.
A Boston clergyman declares that "the
toboggan slide is the broad road that leads
to HE'LL" If this be the case, the ice and
snow must be pretty well melted off the
lower end Of the chute, remarks. an irrever.
ent exchange.
Senator Morgan has introduced resolution
in the Senate requesting the President to sus.
pend futher payments in Wiel and La Abra
claims against Mexico until the question Of
fraud in obtaining awards shall have been
fully investigated.